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2026-27 Flint Firebirds Season Outlook

2025-26 Record: 44 wins, 17 losses, 4 overtime losses, 3 shootout losses.

Graduating Players:

Returning Players:

Left Wing, Nathan Aspinall

• 2006-03-30
• 127 games played, 50 goals, 91 assists, 141 points.

Forward, Jimmy Lombardi

• 2007-02-16
• 128 games played, 49 goals, 68 assists, 117 points.

Right Wing, Alex Kostov

• 2006-06-03
• 115 games played, 40 goals, 60 assists, 100 points.

Centre, Christopher Thibodeau

• 2005-10-13
• 109 games played, 38 goals, 50 assists, 88 points.
• Potential overage player

Defenseman, Urban Podrekar

• 2005-02-14
• 132 games played, 21 goals, 56 assists, 77 points.
• Potential overage player

Right Wing, Darian Anderson

• 2006-12-22
• 60 games played, 20 goals, 25 assists, 45 points.

Defenseman, Darels Uljanskis

• 2006-08-25
• 42 games played, 8 goals, 18 assists, 26 points.

Defenseman, Dryden Allen

• 2007-08-09
• 68 games played, 3 goals, 21 assists, 24 points.

Defenseman, Luka Graziano

• 2007-01-01
• 62 games played, 3 goals, 21 assists, 24 points.

Defenseman, Rylan Fellinger

• 2007-05-16
• 129 games played, 6 goals, 17 assists, 23 points.

Centre, Joshua Colosimo

• 2006-01-13
• 99 games played, 7 goals, 14 assists, 21 points.

Right Wing, Charlie Murata

• 2009-01-01
• 59 games played, 5 goals, 13 assists, 18 points.

Forward, Karlis Flugins

• 2007-11-11
• 52 games played, 5 goals, 9 assists, 14 points.

Forward, Ryland Cunningham

• 2008-06-28
• 56 games played, 4 goals, 7 assists, 11 points.

Forward, Xavier Tessier

• 2008-05-09
• 41 games played, 8 goals, 1 assists, 9 points.

Forward, Josh Bonnyman

• 2007-07-05
• 46 games played, 2 goals, 6 assists, 8 points.

Defenseman, Jack D'Arcy

• 2007-12-02
• 49 games played, 1 goals, 4 assists, 5 points.

Defenseman, James Paul

• 2007-10-27
• 42 games played, 1 goals, 3 assists, 4 points.

Defenseman, Christian Colosimo

• 2008-01-01
• 22 games played, 1 goals, 1 assists, 2 points.

Defenseman, Zack Bleick

• 2008-09-04
• 8 games played, 0 goals, 1 assists, 1 points.

Goaltender, Mason Courville

• 2009-10-27
• 18 games played, 0 goals, 0 assists, 0 points.

Left Wing, Brendan Cooke

• 2007-12-22
• 7 games played, 0 goals, 0 assists, 0 points.

Forward, Gage Brandon

• 2008-06-10
• 3 games played, 0 goals, 0 assists, 0 points.

Defenseman, Lucas Nutting

• 2009-04-05
• 1 games played, 0 goals, 0 assists, 0 points.

Forward, Carter Beauchesne

• 2009-01-01
• 1 games played, 0 goals, 0 assists, 0 points.

Roster Additions:

Defenseman, Jude Bray

• 2008-05-04